2011 By the numbers: Is basic research worth it? (with Sheril R. Kirshenbaum)
The Austin American-Statesman. September 1, 2011.

2010 Book Review: Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money
and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It. The Intersection.
Discover Magazine Blogs. Post was excerpted for The Austin American-
Statesman Insight & Books section on September 5, 2010.

2010 Unscientific California: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Serpentine
and Biodiversity. The Intersection. Discover Magazine Blogs. Post was
part of a campaign by a coalition of scientists that successfully defeated a
bill (SB624) aimed at removing serpentine as the state rock of California.